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Master and commander / Patrick O'Brian.
By: O'Brian, Patrick
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Publisher: London Harper Collins 2002Description: 408 p. 22 cm.ISBN: 0006499155.Other title: Master & commander.Subject(s): Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Maturin, Stephen (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Ship physicians -- Fiction | Ship captains -- Fiction | Large type books | Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 | British Royal Navy | Seafaring life | Shipboard life | Sea adventures | Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century -- Fiction | Ship | Sea | Aubrey, Jack Male Naval officer Ship's captain | Maturin, Stephen Male Naturalist Spy Surgeon | 1800-1815 19th century | Aubrey/Maturin novel -- 1Genre/Form: Historical fiction. | Sea stories. | Historical | Saga | Adventure | FictionSummary: The first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of life aboard a man-of-war are rendered: the conversational idiom of the men, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of wind and rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
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The first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of life aboard a man-of-war are rendered: the conversational idiom of the men, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of wind and rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
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